Just A Question...

[wereguy2]

I would rather no new members instead of one "useful" one for every hundred cluttery non-user.

 

[Miss_Foxy]

I don't mean having useless members who spam, I mean having members who are 'good' and actually contribute to the Forum rather than destroy it, it's better to have more manpower helping about the place to make it more popular right? Is that too much to ask for...?

 

[leet.firefox]

There is no way an influx of users will consist only of helpful friendly people who just want to hang around the forums being the pleasant people that they are.
This is a warcraft modding community. If they do not know how and/or are not willing to learn, then they are not useful.

The way you describe it you make it sound like you just want a bunch of people to come on the forums and socialize. That is what myface or spacebook or whatever is for.

 

[Eleandor]

I don't mean having useless members who spam, I mean having members who are 'good' and actually contribute to the Forum rather than destroy it, it's better to have more manpower helping about the place to make it more popular right? Is that too much to ask for...?

I think it's safe to say that for every 100 new members we get each day, 99.9 percent are "useless". Useless as in:
- They're only here for the downloads, not for the uploads.
- They're only here to post nonsense
- They're only here to ask questions, not to answer them.
- They're bots
- They're double accounts
- They're here to leave. We have 40 000 "inactive" members. And I'm sure the 10 000 members flagged as "active" log in once a month to post in off-topic or download something (read: useless).

To make an easy comparison: The hive is like a country where nearly each new civilian is an immigrant who is here to get rich without doing anything. They're leaches. It may sound harsh, but it's the truth. I don't have anything against leaches in online communities. It's what made hive this large in the first place. But they're not contributing anything. And with the amount of members we already have, we don't need any more leaches.

Now, if we would actually have 10 000 active members, we would have a LOT more problems. An online community that large would no longer be manageable. Unless you hire tons of moderators, which leads to internal problems, etcetera etcetera.

I don't see how getting more people to join the hive can in any way contribute to the quality of this website. Unless they're all new Da Vinci's, which is quite unlikely.

 

[Ham Ham]

I always leve in my maps this:

"For updates for this map, and to play more of my maps, visit www. hiveworkshop .com"

 

[wereguy2]

So do I, but I agree with Eleandor.

 

[Miss_Foxy]

Okay... But I still won't give up, I believe I can actually find more 'useful' members to the forum, no matter what you say... Even if I start small and slow...

 

[MultiGod]

Er.... many people join here, because they has nothing to do.(that includes me)
I joined because I think "ooo. hive is big, for pros, full of pros. I want to join the pros. so i can get categorized as a pro. Yea......"
ridiculous right? and useless members will fill out the maps and resource database with blank maps, copied maps and resources with no permission, they will cause catastrophic disaster on hive.so: more members != better

 

[Rising_Dusk]

This thread makes me laugh.

"ooo. hive is big, for pros, full of pros. I want to join the pros. so i can get categorized as a pro. Yea......"

Rofl.

 

[MultiGod]

nah, at first I joined hive i have thoughts like that
but meh, now i know there are n00bs who think like that here too

 

[Slaydon]

its the n00bs thats joinings fault, i think we already are a really big community, so why discuss unactive members?

 

[Miss_Foxy]

I'll try to gather more 'pros' then... And I'll try to teach those 'noobs' how to act well...

 

[MultiGod]

just asking... HOW will you teach the n00bs?
3/4 Warcraft players in my country are n00bs that dont know Hive, play BNet to dl maps.Ruin games by canceling when the countdown starts, etc etc

 

[Miss_Foxy]

But you'd have to at least give them a chance... Nobody is perfect from the start, that's why we need teachers...

 

[MultiGod]

What im asking is... how will the teacher teach the n00bs?

People are different you know.:
- some can learn something fast
- some can adapt to something fast
- some cant learn something fast
- some cant adapt to certain situations
- and some have no brains at all

 

[LordDz]

What im asking is... how will the teacher teach the n00bs?

People are different you know.:
- some can learn something fast
- some can adapt to something fast
- some cant learn something fast
- some cant adapt to certain situations
- and some have no brains at all

Then I suppose that only the ones with brains will know how to register an account? Or they will simply be banned.

 

[MultiGod]

the ones with no brains is bots!
bots dont have brains. they have understandunable words!

 

[Kwaliti]

Not really. About 15% of noobs from here evolve into regular users, and it's a sad percentile.

 

[Miss_Foxy]

Hey, I am I 'noob' too you know? But I just want to help out... Please let me have a chance at least to help out the Hive, I really really want to help the forum out...

 

[Rising_Dusk]

God, just shut up, we get it. Now stop talking about it and making this thread linger and go advertise the site or something somewhere. Jesus Christ.

 

[Miss_Foxy]

But I need some ideas on how I can do it Legally...

 

[Rising_Dusk]

Advertising a website without personal profit from the transaction is perfectly legal.

 

[thelifelessone]

Does anyone really advertise a website for any other reason than money?

And don't tell her to shut up. It isn't very nice.
Tell me, how would you like it if I told you to shut up?

 

[Deathcom3s]

Does anyone really advertise a website for any other reason than money?

Umm, yes. People advertise sites for a lot more reasons than just money. No one here is making money off of the hive.

 

[Gilles]

Or are we?! :O

But seriously, close this.

 

[Deathcom3s]

Or are we?! :O

But seriously, close this.

Agreed.

~Thread Closed